On Monday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced that an antitrust settlement has been reached and it's a go ahead by the authorities, to allow merger of the Dutch supermarket chain Ahold and Belgium's Delhaize. Ahold is the parent of Stop & Shop and Delhaize is parent to Food Lion and Hannaford supermarkets.

On Monday, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA or 'The T') decided to pay its commuter rail operator an additional $66 million more than what was earlier planned, over a period of six years following the $30 million loss that the company faced in 2015.

Keolis Commuter Services still struggles with its in-time performance and the additional money will help it to add more locomotives and coaches and also maintain the new equipments along with operating as per some recently revised train schedules.

Lyme disease is considered to be endemic in Ireland. It has been said there are a number of people who might be affected by the disease but are not aware of the same.

This is happening due to lack of awareness among people and GPs. In Ireland, hundreds of people are contacted by the disease. But not everyone is getting the right treatment as some are left untreated and others might be getting treated for the wrong condition.

A group of mechanical engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been encouraged make a snail-inspired robot. Snails are slow, slimy and sometimes irritating creatures, but the ability of the creature to move in any direction has become the cause for inspiration.

The creation is known as the RoboSnailtakes obtains signal from a living snail.